Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, pushed back Wednesday against the accusation that the U.S. military has gone "woke."
He then seemed to suggest that "white rage" was linked to the Capitol riot; defended race-obsessed writers on the military reading list by comparing them to Marx and Mao (which military leaders also read, more as a way of understanding the enemy, though, not ourselves); and misstated the 3/5 compromise in the Constitution (it was not "three-fourths," and it was not about the humanity of black people, but counting population to give the slave states less power).
Recall that Milley was the leader who apologized for the -- perfectly appropriate -- walk with President Donald Trump through Lafayette Square last June 1, which demonstrated that the democratically-elected government, and not the mob fueled by the media and the Democratic Party, was in control.
Here, by the way, is the controversial Navy reading list. Under "foundational," it includes a wide variety of left-wing agitprop. The only conservative on the list is David Brooks, an anti-Trump center-right writer.
https://www.navy.mil/CNO-Professional-Reading-Program/
In my (very anecdoctal) experience, the officer corps is more woke than the enlisted ranks, who have to deal with reality and don't have time for racism or for so-called "antiracism." They also aren't burdened with a college education.
The story of Noah is familiar; the details, less so.
Noah is often seen as an ambivalent figure. He was righteous -- but only for his generation. What was his deficiency?
One answer suggests itself: knowing that the world was about to be flooded, he built an Ark for the animals and for his own family -- but did not try to save anyone else or to convince them to repent and change their ways (the prophet Jonah, later, would share that reluctance).
Abraham, later, would set himself apart by arguing with God -- with the Lord Himself! -- against the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, saying that they should be saved if there were enough righteous people to be found (there were not).
Still, Noah was good enough -- and sometimes, that really is sufficient to save the world. We don't need heroes every time -- just ordinary decency.
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An interesting weekend -- one of the last of Daylight Savings Time -- in which there is much to celebrate, much to contemplate, and a bit to worry about.
The Gaza peace deal is shaky, but holding, after the living hostages returned; the shutdown is still going on, with no end in sight; the China trade war is heating up; and the confrontation with Venezuela continues to escalate.
The "No Kings" protest was a dud, despite the media's attempt to inflate it. What I find fascinating is that the Democrats have basically stolen the rhetoric and the imagery of the Tea Party protests, circa 2009. They claim they are defending the Constitution -- just like the Tea Party did.
On the one hand, this is good. How wonderful to have a political system in which both sides, bitterly opposed though they are, articulate differences through the Constitution -- and not, as in so many other countries, outside it.
On the other, this is sheer hypocrisy for the Democrats. Not only did they malign the Tea Party as ...
